The Practical Leader

MAY 8, 2024

He was clearly operating on the assumption that if they knew better, they’d do better. Building transformation into the company’s operating rhythm. His book, The Art of Virtue (edited by George Rogers), is an inspiring account of Franklin’s life and an instructive guide to his continuous improvement habits.

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Learning-by-Doing Workshop Survey Rogers 52

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2018

John Wayne and Roy Rogers had Gabby Hayes. Back characters on TV shows included restaurant and bar operators, where the stars went top relax. Bandleaders on the late-night are vital #3 characters on the show, including Doc Severinsen, Skitch Henderson, Paul Shaffer and The Roots band. Gene Autry had Pat Buttram.

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Rogers Henderson Mentor Learning-by-Doing 62

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2019

As the verse from the old Kenny Rogers song goes “ you have to know when to hold em and know when to fold em. Significant opportunities are not only scarce, but they typically operate on the principal of diminishing returns. Put simply, opportunities are time sensitive.

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Due Diligence Metrics Rogers Competitive Advantage 170

Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Great execution can elevate a flawed plan; at the same time, poor operational capabilities can easily sink a great set of ideas. The real magic for me as a leader was understanding how to shape our strategy and operational plans by integrating ideas from others and empowering them to bring those concepts to life.

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Team Rogers Diversity Franchising 100

First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 22, 2011

Chan John Wiley & Sons (2010) A chorus of eloquent voices that suggest “a sense of what life is, can be, or should be” Prior to reading this book, I had already read two biographies of Warren Buffett, Roger Lowenstein’s Buffett: [.].

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Rogers Books Review Company 80

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 17, 2015

And, the operating budget has climbed from $38M to $178M. Roger Clodfelter, focuses on creating wow experiences for students all year long. News & World Report picked HPU in 2014 as #1 among up and coming schools and the #1 regional college in the south. Retention has skyrocketed and SAT scores have jumped 55 points on average.

Leadership 150

Leadership Education Wireless Rogers 150

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Cornell (Chairman and CEO of Target Corporation), and Roger Enrico (CEO of Pepsi) all received coaching at the executive level while being at the helm of some of the most notable companies on the planet. There’s also no guarantee of proficiency that a leader will operate at when skills and qualities are learned or developed informally.

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Executive Coaching Execution Self-aware Company 322

Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

A study published in 2012 in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes found that prompting people to mentally picture a task from the perspective of an outside observer caused them to make more realistic predictions about how long the tasks might take, said Dr. Roger Buehler, the lead author of the study.

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Self-aware Rogers Organizational Behavior Tips 70

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

In today’s post I’ll take a look at timing as key success metric… As the verse from the old Kenny Rogers song goes “you have to know when to hold em and know when to fold em.&# So much so, that if you don’t think timing is everything - think again.

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Blog Leadership Self-aware Crisis 418

Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Why are organizations operating on a shoestring when there is a world of abundance out there?” ” Discover Roger on Twitter at @DoctorDuncan. Stephanie writes: “Have you seen the pretty scary statement from the Nonprofit Times that “most charities are teetering on financial peril”? Financial peril. Productivity.

Leadership Development 241

Leadership Development Development Leadership Team Building 241

Deming Institute

JANUARY 15, 2018

The difficulty in changing is often mostly about our psychology (not the technical difficulty of operating under changed systems and processes after making adjustments to adapt to take advantage of new opportunities). by Will Rogers, or somebody else. Whoever said it, it is certainly true.

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Deming Company Management Conference 53

Deming Institute

MARCH 25, 2019

Per Carl Rogers, that which most personal is most universal”. 20 to 25 years of efforts to transform the systemic nature of business operations…. Most business corporations are basically pouring all the energy they can into sustaining, strengthening, tightening up, becoming yet more able to operate in the industrial mode….and

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Senge Education Deming Industry 63

Change Starts Here

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Rogers diffusion of innovation curve. It got me thinking… How does the Rogers adoption model link to the Kubler-Ross model? He also writes about improving business operations at www.squawkpoint.com. If you understand which stage people are in you can help them move on. Or start earlier? As you can see from his C.V.

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ADKAR Management Early Adopters Rogers 60

The Center For Leadership Studies

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Empower the “What”: Probably the most unique aspect of Alan’s “trip down the mountain at Ford” was removing himself from the content of operational decisions. If you Google it, you will find 11 bullets that read like a script summary for an episode of Ted Lasso, or a documentary on the lifetime contributions of Fred Rogers: People first.

Situational Leadership 52

Situational Leadership Hersey Leadership Document 52

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

” Will Rogers. The ingredients may include such sophisticated business concepts as change management, crisis management and preparedness, streamlining operations, empowerment of people, marketplace development, organizational evolution and vision. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Benchmarking 50

Benchmarking Crisis Management Rogers Tactics 50

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

I love the way you have clearly differentiated between strategy and tactics – so many people get them confused and end up playing checkers instead of chess… Thanks, Landon Creasy [link] [link] Roger Martin Mike: This is an excellent tool. It is as comprehensive for leadership traits as I’ve seen in many other assessments.

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Blog Leadership Benchmarking Tactics 366

HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

David Silverman: Shared consciousness is the single most important capability for organizations operating in complex environments. With the right operating mechanisms in place, shared consciousness can scale across the enterprise. The person who stands out most to me is my high school water polo coach, Larry Rogers.

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Silverman Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Objective 51

ExactHire - Leadership

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

There simply was not enough hiring taking place for Millennials to make their mark on organizations, and so the dynamics in the workplace and how these companies operated really didn’t change. Herman, CSP, CMC Today’s Workforce Demographic shifts have placed vital demands on talent.

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Resources Talent Management Rogers Follow-up 52

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

I should say we were talking off the air about- Thanks for ruining Everett Rogers’ curve for me. It’s a little more complicated than a five forces matrix or the Everett Rogers’ normal curve, diffusion and innovation curve. Case in point, like I joked about earlier, you ruined Everett Rogers’ model of diffusion innovation for me.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 1, 2016

Security breaches happen : Nicky Parsons, played by Julia Stiles, was a former CIA operative who knew her way around computers. Hearing Aaron Kalloor say this reminded me of the Kenny Rogers song The Gambler. Have you been building your business in a way that you can succeed with one good product? Yet it happened. I’m out.

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Leadership Cost Planning Rogers 120

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

A conversation with Rotman professor emeritus Roger Martin on why leaders should stop treating companies like machines.

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Efficiency Rogers Company Operations 10

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

I emceed concerts with stars like Elvis Presley, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Little Richard, Kenny Rogers, The Beach Boys, Roy Orbison, Simon & Garfunkel, Nelson Riddle, Dionne Warwick and Andre Previn. Non-profit organizations operating more business-like. Volunteering, as time permits and worthy causes appear.

Strategic Planning 50

Strategic Planning Planning Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

Many of the best leaders and managers in the business world operate from the Pleaser power style. When they are operating from their strengths, Pleasers can become the glue that holds a positive corporate culture together. Roger, a vice president of sales and marketing in the pharmaceutical industry, was one such Pleaser.

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Rogers Morale Long-term Pharmaceuticals 15

Management Craft

APRIL 24, 2011

Is the paradox of abundance operating in the background of your life? The concept of a fully functioning person from, On Becoming a Person by Carl Rogers. I have been thinking about this a lot lately and know it is so for me. Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being by Dr. Martin Seligman. Positive emotions.

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Rogers Construction Goal Film 69

Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 12, 2022

As Roger Clodfelter, Senior V.P. Everything operated as its own unit. As you consider the HPU story, you can conclude that when you are in the transformation business, the proof isn ’ t just in the students, but the campus, staff, operations, and even the nuances. This was part of the problem at the college.

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Case Study Education Learning-by-Doing Brand 86

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Go… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Dan Rogers Mike – This is a great post with excellent perspective. The churches I had previously worked with operated from the the philosophy this is church, and if people want it they will come. I plan on circulating your information and just ordered your book.

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Blog Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 379

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2018

They think of the “lights-out” factory that General Motors Chief Executive Roger Smith fantasized about in 1982 and Elon Musk talks about building today—plants so dominated by robots and machines that they don’t need lights to work.

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Process Automotive Rogers Operations 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

When that happens, you don’t need a lot of rules because people make judgments that are in sync with what the business needs and how the business operates to get there. When the two are highly aligned, we see that spark where employees are rowing hard in the same direction to execute the business strategies quickly and effectively.

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Company Survey Rogers Skills 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

While nonprofits, often starved for general operating funds, can’t match pharma’s marketing budgets, a recent Bridgespan study argues that it’s time they and their funders heed business findings on increasing noise in the marketplace and the need to make any new offering, even a life-saving one, stand out. .”

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Innovation Rogers NGO Participative 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Twelve-year-old Roger Ruiz was expelled from his public school in rural Nicaragua. Today, Roger is president of the school, elected by his peers. On a recent trip, he briefed me on his business plan and on the school's operations with the maturity and confidence of a seasoned entrepreneur.

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Microfinance Rogers Tourism Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

In 2009 Tony Scibelli, Vice President of Human Resources and Operations at Faxton-St. Luke's Healthcare learned that the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Nursing Officer were going to launch "relationship-based care," a comprehensive cultural change program to focus doctors' and nurses' attention on patients and their families.

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Human Resources Chief Operating Officer Ulrich Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

She got the same tough assignments and challenging watches as her male counterparts, all of it designed to immunize her for the operational challenges ahead. According to renowned counseling psychologist Carl Rogers , empathy helps us learn to listen and understand mentees.

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Mentor Rogers Commitment Stress 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Mauricio is president of the European operation for a Fortune 500 manufacturing firm, and his firm has had its trials lately. Yet their meetings continued to focus on the day-to-day numbers, operational processes, and immediate crises. Roger Schwarz. The company recently took a hit on the stock market. You and Your Team Series.

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Long-term Short-term Strategy Brainstorming 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

In 1962, an academic by the name of Everett Rogers released a book called The Diffusion of Innovations. Rogers, who spent much of his early career studying the adoption of agricultural innovation, aptly pointed out that many innovations are slow to see adoption not for lack of appeal but for lack of an appropriate ecosystem.

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Rogers Telecommunications Disruptive Innovation Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2015

Roger was a young rising star. His company had just appointed him to take over a troubled country operation in Latin America. Coaching Roger, I suggested he was a bunny rabbit who had just been attacked by a horde of guinea pigs. Roger was a classic rabbit. He did a brilliant job turning things around financially.

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Rogers Benchmarking Loyalty Learning-by-Doing 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2012

While all good leaders must keep the company’s internal operations moving forward, the very best ones must also be looking outside the company towards the customers, clients, financiers, volunteers and the organization’s entire affected constituencies. ” Will Rogers said, “Mr. Profound influence. Cluelessness-Apathy.

Business Development 50

Business Development Development Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

Roger Federer can arguably be considered the greatest tennis player of all time, having won 16 Grand Slam titles—and yet he lost every French Open Championship he played against Rafael Nadal. And even though no one would deny Roger Federer’s overall tennis prowess, no one expects that he would win in every conceivable situation.

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Strategic Fit Rogers CEO Strategy 8